Auricular Point Acupressure to Manage Chemotherapy Induced Neuropathy
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Brief summary
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The proposed randomized control trial will evaluate auricular point acupressure (APA) on chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN), rigorously considering point specificity and placebo effects by integrating self-report measures, psychophysical measures (QST), endogenous biomarkers (cytokines), and neuro-imaging to investigate APA's efficacy and underlying mechanism(s).
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04920097
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 238 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- In-person training for seed placement and APA Other
- Virtual training for seed placement and APA Other
- Usual Care Other
- Post-training zoom session for seed placement and APA coaching Other
Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 7, 2021
- Primary completion
- May 29, 2025
- Completion
- Mar 18, 2026
- Last update posted
- Aug 3, 2026
2021 – 2026
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | Maryland | 21205 | — |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
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- Last update posted Aug 3, 2026 · Synced Sep 10, 2026
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